ABOUT THE BOOK
This collection of wonderful stories is a veritable modern bestiary of humour.
The
comic figures come thick and fast.
- from Bartholomew the Bear to Caractacus the
Duck and the amazing Skatty Kat.
The venues vary from zoos and circuses to...
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This collection of wonderful stories is a veritable modern bestiary of humour.
The
comic figures come thick and fast.
- from Bartholomew the Bear to Caractacus the
Duck and the amazing Skatty Kat.
The venues vary from zoos and circuses to Count Hemlock s palace and Mirands a
voyage among the sea-shell caverns of St Bride s Bay.
The lopsided Corporal of Grenadiers is typical of adult catastrophe but is meant
for the ear of the most mature as well as those of kids.
Some of the cool cats get
away with it but the nauseous human never does.
The animals win through in the end, from the pondweeds of home to the mystical
caves of Miranda and the Triumph of Tadema the Tortoise.
These can be applauded by those of all ages, read them right now, about the Fair
Folk of Iffland and of Hecktide, the great Dane, whose home is in Northern
Hampstead.
Finish them! That will clinch it - twenty-three pieces of resistance representing
the cream of the cream of the story-telling scene.
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